Where should SQL Server go in the future? What enhancements are needed? Steve Jones takes another break from his wishes to include some more feedback from users who have some wishes of their own. Read about what real users of SQL Server would like to see included in future versions.
2003-09-22
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We've had a soft launch under way for the past week, but now we'd like to sell the rest of the books stacked up at Andy's house! $15 plus shipping will get you a book that you'll be proud to put on your bookshelf. Read this to get latest pricing and answers to the most recent questions we've gotten.
2003-09-19
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This article by Andy Warren offers a free utility that will generate DSN's for all or just a subset of the databases on a server in seconds.
2003-09-19
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Directly accessing system tables is discouraged - so what's the alternative? Using the Information Schema should allow you to create code that survives upgrades. Beyond that, what can you do with it? Joe has four great examples to get you started.
2003-09-18
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Chris discusses some issues he had trying to use SQL dates from within Java. Interesting stuff and brings up the point that if you have dates stored in local time, having users in multiple time zones can be a large headache.
2003-09-17
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Where should SQL Server go in the future? What enhancements are needed? Steve Jones continues to explore his wish list for future versions of SQL Server.
2003-09-15
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Andy reviewed v1.51 almost two years ago, this week he looks at the latest release that includes one feature he really wanted - the ability to compare and sync text columns.
2003-09-12
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Chris has been working through the process of upgrading to Win2003 and has the start of a great checklist along with few lessons learned - stuff that will come in handy it's time for you to do your own upgrade.
2003-09-11
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Frank has been part of our community for a while now, posting more than 1000 times (wow!) in our discussion area. He's decided to contribute more of his time by putting together an article that discusses how SQL has evolved.
2003-09-10
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DTS logging is a pretty handy feature - if you've got it enabled. Got lots of packages and want to turn it on for all of them? Thats a lot of point and click using EM, but with the code Haidong has put together, it's a snap. Other possibilities to this code as well. After all, it uses a DTS package to modify other DTS packages.
2003-09-09
12,285 reads
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